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I just had a certain someone who is experiencing this show for the first time and is on episode three say that "Richard Avery is a creep, Laura is an idiot" 😅 I've said, yes, Richard is and looks like a rat, but stay with Laura, she ends up being a sarcastic goddess (but underutilised).

Don Murray left because Knots was bordering on cancellation between seasons 1-3. So he thought there were better options, but later admitted that a 14 season paycheck would've been nice.

Possibly - you also had 90210 taking off at that time in a big way and "teen" shows getting higher coverage. It does feel like 90210's rise and Saved by the Bell's is tied more together than with Tiffani Amber-Thiessen.

Interesting that Saved by the Bell is "only" in mid-to-high-3.0s at that point. I wonder when it broke out? This was still season one I guess.

Courtney, Daphne and Laura are doing a re-watch pod! The first episode was released yesterday, July 8, on Melrose's 32nd birthday. https://linktr.ee/stilltheplace Truly stunning how they look exactly the same.

RIP Sheehan. The claim was that they did try to get in contact with him during the season 9 Jill storyline, but apparently he was just off the radar at the time. The good ole' days!

She woke up one day and decided to do FASHION

No idea why, but I feel the need to post this image without further comment:

I've been enjoying looking up past home pages I did and omg: https://web.archive.org/web/20011005001613/http://www.dalberg.nu/cpw/

@Melroser

I agree with you here - I think that a lot of people end up thinking that the head writer has the final say, but remember that Ron was essentially told to bring back the Devil as an example. There's also surely issues with how none of the Abby actresses wanted to commit to the show - considering Kate Mansi went to do General Hospital one suspects there might be reasons for that beyond Ron's control. We also can't underestimate that they probably do test panels every now and then to see what people react positively to (some people claimed that the reason Daniel was kept for so long and front-burner was because he tested high there). Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Leo - a Mostly Sexless Gay with Sassy Lines tests quite well on panels. I think we sometimes overestimate how much people do think about the storylines that are presented.

It was by Chuck Pratt though, so you know it would've gone completely off the rails by episode three. Secrets of a Small Town actually had the cast options extended so I wonder if ABC just started inquiring about future plans/plots on the show and just decided against it lol

Well, those people are idiots then and it shows you how their support was always partisan rather than believing that women shouldn't be treated like trash on set.

Witches of Eastwick had two different attempts to make it to television - first an actual comedy in 1992 from NBC starring Ally Walker, Julia Campbell and Catherine Mary Stewart and then a 2002 FOX version starring Marcia Cross, Kelly Rutherford and Lori Loughlin. Someone wanted this tv show to happen.

To be fair, sometimes networks do end up retooling and re-filming pilots, but a lot of the time pilots either get passed on because they have a limited amount of spots for a certain type of programming (ie before ABC hit paydirt with Desperate Housewives they had several soapy pilots in development), or it just doesn't fit into their schedule (like the proposed Cruel Intentions show on NBC, despite executives raving about it) or it's simply too expensive to make it sustainable (like Mockingbird Lane, whose pilot got an airing on NBC). I miss this sort of pilot season tbh as it was very exciting, but yeah, it's been done away with pretty much with year-round development and fewer pilots making it to filming.

Don't get me wrong - I get it, but it's just that most of those people just want to start a conflict for the sake of it. It's not worth getting engaged in and I doubt they think a lot about it. But yes, I think it's important to let THE GATES grow beyond week one, or month six. All soaps had to work out their kinks so I hope THE GATES get that chance. With that said - the one hope I do have is that they'll at least have invested in the main sets. That makes such a difference for daytime soaps.

This is a bit overdramatic - people are just being shady and engaging in "stan" wars. With that said - The Gates will need room to breathe. Expecting it to be great from the get-go is naive since all soaps started out kind of scrappy. Let The Gates find its own way and work the kinks out before writing it off (which will happen for some on week one).

I mean, Tyler Perry truly only writes quality material really. Imagine seeing a scene with astounding dialogue like this between Will and Marlena?

I think it was partly down to ABC having a 30 minute window at 2:30PM where they seemingly couldn't get a game show to stick. Just looking at their schedule, they had tried out five different game shows in the past two seasons before expanding OLTL and GH to take over the spot. And of course, The Edge of Night moved from CBS, so they couldn't expand the shows the other way. So experimenting with longer soaps + poor performance of game shows seems to be the culprint to the 45 minute experiment. I guess it's not odd when you consider soaps started out at 15 minutes.

I feel like at the time there was a bit more restrictions about talking about characters belonging to a real life agency, involved with real world politics etc. But that's just my guess.

I've never watched Supertrain but I don't think I've ever heard of a train with a gym and a disco on board. It seems like lifting heavy weights on a moving train could go very wrong really fast!

I just realised that the recent documentary (well three years ago) actually did acknowledge that Jonathan Frid was, indeed, gay: https://www.ebar.com/story.php?309942 I remember reading the comments fields on sites like Dark Shadows Every Day while watching it and there were still a lot of ladies in their 50s and 60s who swore Frid was absolutely not gay. Why, I don't get. He's one of the more obvious ones.

I think it's missing "as in - they picked them off the street!".

The first ones I thought was were Brash & Cwikly on DAYS, but they were there for just short of a year! They then got replaced by Higley Round One before she managed to run it into the ground so badly that they had to get JER back. I'm not sure why they replaced Brash and Cwikly in the first place - their stuff wasn't all home runs, but I do remember liking them alright especially efter the messy Langan run.

There were some daily break-down writers on DAYS I wish would advance up in the food chain, though I haven't kept track of them since a while before the strikes. Maybe they're bad at plotting but soaps need to take chance on new people, not just circle the same old same old around.